[vdr] Re: this weekend must be daylight savings in the US

[Jeremy Hall <jhall@maoz.com>]

CUTE!

well what about putting your computer on UTC, will that fix it?

_J

In the new year, Oliver Endriss wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 October 2003 13:21, Jeremy Hall wrote:
> > well I'm looking at the EEPG and noticing something interesting.
> > 
> > Our guide is updated on 8-hour blocks and there are entries for channels 
> > that are 8 hours long, because the channel shows the same thing all the 
> > time.  It looks wierd, because I see the time shifting one hour on axis, 
> > and where it used to say 20:00 it says 19:00 etc.  It would be interesting 
> > if you wanted a timer to span this magical hour in time, what would it do, 
> > and how does vdr handle multiple events starting at the same time (in case 
> > of adding an hour)
> > 
> > oh well, just an interesting observation
> 
> You might experience some strange effects if a timer spans this hour.
> 1st example:
> - timer start 02:45 CEST
> - timer stop  03:15 CET
> 
> You'd like to have a 90 min recording, but you will get a 45 min
> partial recording with a *gap* from 02:00 CET to 02:45 CET.
> vdr does the following:
> - starts recording at 02:45 CEST
> - stops recording at 02:00 CET
> - starts recording at 02:45 CET
> - stops recording at 03:15 CET
> 
> This happens because the local clock jumps back
> from 02:59 CEST to 02:00 CET.
> 
> Last year I posted a patch which will prevent a started timer from
> stopping before the stop time has been reached.
> But this would only fix this kind of problem.
> 
> 2nd example:
> - timer start 02:15 CEST
> - timer stop  02:45 CET
> 
> You'd like to have a 90 min recording, but you will get only the first
> 30 minutes:
> - vdr starts recording at 02:15 CEST
> - vdr stops recording at 02:45 CEST
> 
> Everyone should carefully review all timer entries spanning the magic
> hour. Remember that vdr cannot distinguish 02:xx dst and 02:xx non-dst!
> 
> Oliver
> 
> 
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